mediocrity 音标拼音: [m
, idi'ɑkrəti]
n . 平常,平庸之才
平常,平庸之才
mediocrity n 1 :
ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding [
synonym : {
averageness }, {
mediocrity }]
2 :
a person of second -
rate ability or value ; "
a team of aging second -
raters "; "
shone among the mediocrities who surrounded him " [
synonym : {
second -
rater }, {
mediocrity }]
Mediocrity \
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n . [
F .
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[
1913 Webster ]
1 .
The quality of being mediocre ;
a middle state or degree ;
a moderate degree or rate . "
A mediocrity of success ."
--
Bacon .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
Moderation ;
temperance . [
Obs .] --
Hooker .
[
1913 Webster ]
3 .
A mediocre person ; --
used disparagingly .
[
PJC ]
144 Moby Thesaurus words for "
mediocrity ":
Middle America ,
a nobody ,
a nothing ,
adulteration ,
average ,
balance ,
baseness ,
bourgeoisie ,
burgherdom ,
center ,
cipher ,
common man ,
defectibility ,
defectiveness ,
deficiency ,
dull tool ,
dummy ,
erroneousness ,
failure ,
fallibility ,
faultiness ,
fewness ,
figurehead ,
fourth -
rater ,
generality ,
golden mean ,
greenhorn ,
happy medium ,
immaturity ,
impairment ,
imperfection ,
impurity ,
inability ,
inaccuracy ,
inadeptness ,
inadequacy ,
inadequateness ,
inaptitude ,
inaptness ,
inattentiveness ,
incapability ,
incapable ,
incapacity ,
incompetence ,
incompetency ,
incompetent ,
incompleteness ,
indexterity ,
ineffectiveness ,
ineffectuality ,
inefficiency ,
ineptness ,
inexactitude ,
inexactness ,
insignificancy ,
insufficiency ,
jackstraw ,
juste -
milieu ,
lack ,
lightweight ,
little fellow ,
little guy ,
littleness ,
maladjustment ,
maladroitness ,
man of straw ,
mean ,
meanness ,
median ,
medium ,
middle ,
middle class ,
middle course ,
middle ground ,
middle order ,
middle orders ,
middle point ,
middle position ,
middle state ,
middle -
of -
the -
road ,
midpoint ,
nebbish ,
no conjuror ,
no prize ,
nobody one knows ,
nobody special ,
nonentity ,
norm ,
normal ,
nothing special ,
obscurity ,
par ,
patchiness ,
pedestrianism ,
pettiness ,
pip -
squeak ,
punk ,
rule ,
run ,
runt ,
rustiness ,
scrub ,
second -
rater ,
shabbiness ,
shortage ,
shortcoming ,
shrimp ,
silent majority ,
sketchiness ,
skill -
lessness ,
small beer ,
small fry ,
small potato ,
small potatoes ,
smallness ,
squirt ,
squit ,
subnormality ,
suburbia ,
third -
rater ,
thoughtlessness ,
tinhorn ,
triviality ,
unaptness ,
uncleverness ,
undeftness ,
undevelopment ,
undexterousness ,
undextrousness ,
unevenness ,
unfitness ,
unfittedness ,
unintelligence ,
unperfectedness ,
unproficiency ,
unschooledness ,
unskillfulness ,
unsoundness ,
untrainedness ,
via media ,
vulgarity ,
want ,
whiffet ,
whippersnapper
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MEDIOCRITY Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster Instead the words mediocrity and mediocre always suggest disappointment A mediocre play is one you wish you hadn't wasted an evening on, and the mediocre actor in it should probably find another profession A person can even be called a mediocrity, though it isn't very nice and you'd never do it to his face
MEDIOCRITY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary When they have reached mediocrity in a competitive age, they have had to do something about it or go out of business
MEDIOCRITY Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com The noun mediocrity means the quality of being average or ordinary You can't be great at everything — in some areas, we all fall into mediocrity Mediocrity, pronounced "me-dee-AH-crih-tee," has Latin parts that together literally mean "halfway up the mountain "
MEDIOCRITY definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary If you refer to the mediocrity of something, you mean that it is of average quality but you think it should be better
Mediocrity Definition Meaning | Britannica Dictionary We were disappointed by the mediocrity of the wine He thought that he was a brilliant artist himself and that all his fellow painters were just mediocrities
mediocrity noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . . Definition of mediocrity noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
Mediocrity - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com The noun mediocrity means the quality of being average or ordinary You can't be great at everything — in some areas, we all fall into mediocrity Mediocrity, pronounced "me-dee-AH-crih-tee," has Latin parts that together literally mean "halfway up the mountain "
Mediocrity - definition of mediocrity by The Free Dictionary mediocrity (ˌmiːdɪˈɒkrɪtɪ; ˌmɛd-) n, pl -ties 1 the state or quality of being mediocre 2 a mediocre person or thing
mediocrity - Wiktionary, the free dictionary mediocrity (countable and uncountable, plural mediocrities) (uncountable) The condition of being mediocre; having only an average degree of quality, skills etc ; no better than standard
mediocrity, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary There are eight meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun mediocrity, five of which are labelled obsolete See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence